Chronicles Of Majnun Layla And Selected Poems

Author : Qassim Haddad
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815652887
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems written by Qassim Haddad and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems brings together in one volume Haddad’s seminal work and a considerable selection of poems from his oeuvre, stretching over forty years. The central poem, Chronicles of Majnun Layla, recasts the seventh-century myth into a contemporary, postmodern narrative that revels in the foibles of oral transmission, weaving a small side cast of characters into the fabric of the poem. Haddad portrays Layla as a daring woman aware of her own needs and desires and not afraid to articulate them. The author succeeds in reviving this classical work of Arabian love while liberating it from its puritanical dimension and tribal overtones. The selected poems reveal Haddad’s playful yet profound meditations. A powerful lyric poet, Haddad juxtaposes classical and modern symbols, and mixes the old with the new, the sensual with the sacred, and the common with the extraordinary. Ghazoul and Verlenden’s masterful translation remains faithful to the cultural and historical context in which the original poetry was produced while also reflecting the uniqueness of the poet’s style and his poetics.

Author : Samia Mehrez
Publisher : Al Kotob Khan for Publishing and Distribution
ISBN 13 : 9778031134
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In The Shoes of the Other written by Samia Mehrez and published by Al Kotob Khan for Publishing and Distribution. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Shoes of the Other Interdisciplinary Essays in Translation Studies from Cairo “This anthology continues a tradition that is intended to give impetus to the development of Egyptian and Arab discourses on translation both within and beyond the American University in Cairo. It is a welcome and important contribution to raising the profile of translation, in all its forms, and of translators in the region.” Mona Baker, University of Manchester “Since its founding, the Center for Translation Studies has hosted an astonishing number of academic events that are among the most intellectually serious and internationally prominent of AUC’s activities in the humanities; this has been noted by universities across the world. Indeed, the “In Translation” lecture series is, without any exaggeration, the most impressive public lecture series of its kind anywhere, and far beyond anything comparable in Africa or the Middle East.” Adam Talib, Durham University “AUC’s Center for Translation Studies has proved itself a vital interpreter of texts and events generated by Egypt’s turbulent political history and fervent artistic culture. I know of no other group of scholars with equal competence in these matters and with an equivalent respect in the field.” Anthony Cordingley, Université Paris VIII

Author : Karen Bennett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003831354
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Translation and Transposition in the Early Modern Period written by Karen Bennett and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume makes an important contribution to the understanding of translation theory and practice in the Early Modern period, focusing on the translation of knowledge, literature and travel writing, and examining discussions about the role of women and office of interpreter. Over the course of the Early Modern period, there was a dramatic shift in the way that translation was conceptualised, a change that would have repercussions far beyond the world of letters. At the beginning of the period, translation was largely indistinguishable from other textual operations such as exegesis, glossing, paraphrase, commentary, or compilation, and theorists did not yet think in terms of the binaries that would come to characterise modern translation theory. Just how and when this shift occurred in actual translation practice is one of the topics explored in this volume through a series of case studies offering snapshots of translational activity in different times and places. Overall, the picture that emerges is of a translational practice that is still very flexible, as source texts are creatively appropriated for new purposes, whether pragmatic, pedagogical, or diversional, across a range of genres, from science and philosophy to literature, travel writing and language teaching. This book will be of value to those interested in Early Modern history, linguistics, and translation studies.

Author : Ruqayya Yasmine Khan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000701204
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bedouin and ‘Abbāsid Cultural Identities written by Ruqayya Yasmine Khan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This literary-historical book draws out and sheds light upon the mechanisms of "the ideological work" that the Arabic Majnūn Laylā story performed for ‘Abbāsid urbanite, imperial audiences in the wake of the disappearance of the "Bedouin cosmos." The study focuses upon the processes of primitivizing Majnūn in the romance of Majnūn Laylā as part of the paradigm shift that occurred in the ‘Abbāsid empire after the Greco-Arabian intellectual revolution. Moreover, this book demonstrates how gender and sexuality are employed in the processes of primitivizing Majnūn. As markers of "strangeness" and "foreignness" in the ‘Abbāsid interrogations of the multiple categories of ethnicity, culture, identity, religion and language present in their cosmopolitan milieus. Such "cultural work" is performed through the ideological uses of alterity given its mechanisms of distancing (e.g., temporal and spatial) and nearness (e.g., affective). Lastly, the Majnūn Laylā love story demonstrates, in its text and reception, that a Greco-Arabian and Greco-Persian subculture thrived in the centers of ‘Abbāsid Baghdad that molded and shaped the ways in which this love story was compiled, received and performed. Offering a corrective to the prevailing views expressed in Western scholarly writings on the Greco-Arabian encounter, this book is a major contribution to scholars and students interested in Islamic studies, Arabic and comparative literature, Middle East and gender studies.

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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815652968
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monarch of the Square written by and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master of the short story form, Muhammad Zafzaf is one of Morocco’s greatest narrative writers. This anthology, the first collection of his work translated into English, is a tribute to the remarkable influence he exerted on an entire generation of Moroccan storytellers. Zafzaf’s stories are set within a variety of contexts, each portraying a slice of life, a simple struggle for survival in a challenging world that is changing at a rapid pace. Narrative time is reduced to a single glimpse in these stories, full of irony, sarcasm, and sympathy. He covers all aspects of Moroccan life, from remote rural villages to modern cities. The stories in this collection explore the various myths, beliefs, and traditions that operate within Moroccan culture, questioning them from a distance in an easy, conversational manner that is the hallmark of Zafzaf’s style.

Author : Ismail Choonara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780953033706
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Layla-Majnun written by Ismail Choonara and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Smith
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate Layla & Majnun written by Paul Smith and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ULTIMATE LAYLA & MAJNUN: Complete Poems of Majnun (Qays Ibn al-Mulawwah) Nizami's Layla & Majnun & Layla & Majnun... A Screenplay Translation & Introduction Paul Smith. Majnun was a real person! Qays (Majnun='madman') was a youth, a Bedouin poet in the seventh century of the Bani Amir tribe in the Najd desert in Arabia. He fell in love with Layla from the same tribe whom he was denied. (It is said that Shakespeare was inspired by their tale for Romeo & Juliet from their tragic love story). His poetry was composed before and some after his descent into love-madness (mast). Here, in the form of the qit'as in which they were composed, is the largest collection of his immortal poems translated into English. Nizami's famous telling of their tale came from these poems and other sources. It is impossible to underestimate the effect of Nizami's 'Layla and Majnun' on the world over the past 800 years. Many poets throughout this period have copied or been influenced by his story of the young lovers. Many Master-Poets besides Ibn Arabi, 'Attar, Rumi, Sadi, Hafiz and Jami have quoted from him or like him have used the story of the desperate lovers to illustrate how human love can be transformed into divine love through separation and longing. It is said that no one has painted a more perfect picture of women in Persian Literature than Nizami. The correct rhyme-structure of this long masnavi epic poem is here while retaining the beauty of the poetry, mystical meaning and simplicity of the form. 'Layla & Majnun' A Screenplay based on Nizami's version is included here. Large Print (14pt) & Large Format Edition ( 7" x 10") Pages 414 Comments on Paul Smith's Translation of Hafiz's 'Divan'. "It is not a joke... the English version of ALL the ghazals of Hafiz is a great feat and of paramount importance. I am astonished." Dr. Mir Mohammad Taghavi (Dr. of Literature) Tehran. "Superb translations. 99% Hafiz 1% Paul Smith." Ali Akbar Shapurzman, translator and knower of Hafiz's Divan off by heart. "Smith has probably put together the greatest collection of literary facts and history concerning Hafiz." Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin Books author). Paul Smith (b. 1945) is a poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets of the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and other languages including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, 'Attar, Sana'i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Mu'in, Amir Khusrau, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Lalla Ded, Bulleh Shah, Mahsati, Jigar, Hali and others, and his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books and screenplays. amazon.com/author/smithpa

Author : Nizami
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780394736273
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Layla and Majnun written by Nizami and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1978-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nezami Ganjavi
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525505776
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Layli and Majnun written by Nezami Ganjavi and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Persian epic that inspired Eric Clapton's unforgettable love song "Layla" and that Lord Byron called "the Romeo and Juliet of the East," in a masterly new translation A Penguin Classic The iconic love story of the Middle East, by a twelfth-century Persian poet who has been compared to Shakespeare for his subtlety, inventiveness, and dramatic force, Layli and Majnun tells of star-crossed lovers whose union is tragically thwarted by their families and whose passion continues to ripple out across the centuries. Theirs is a love that lasts a lifetime, and in Nezami's immortal telling, erotic longing blends with spiritual self-denial in an allegory of Sufi aspiration, as the amenities of civilization give way to the elemental wilderness, desire is sublimated into a mystical renunciation of the physical world, and the soul confronts its essence. This is a tour de force of Persian literature, in a translation that captures the extraordinary power and virtuosity of the original.

Author : Nizami
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1857826108
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Layla and Majnun - The Classic Love Story of Persian Literature written by Nizami and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing nearly 1000 years ago, Nizami captures the lightness of heart that falling in love can bring, the thrill of shared affection, the sorrows of separation, the pains of jealousy and the grief that comes with loss. Nizami inspired rock star, Eric Clapton, to write his song "Layla".